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For sale is a India General Service Medal (1854 – 95), with clasp LOOSHAI, period engraved Havdr Jungbeer Rana 4th Goorkha Regt.

The expedition was mounted to recover a 6 year old girl who was kidnapped when her parents were murdered by Lashais tribesmen who were conducting a series of robbery and murder raids in Assam in 1871.

The expedition was successful in freeing the girl and other captives and enforcing a peace on the Lashais for another 17 year.